Applicability of human-centered computational creativity insights to life more generally

Determine the extent to which insights and models from the cognitive perspective on computational creativity, which focus on human creativity and cognitive facilities, apply to life more generally across non-human and artificial living systems.

Background

In discussing computational creativity, the authors note that most existing work focuses on engineering applications, while the few efforts adopting a cognitive perspective primarily address human creativity. They explicitly state uncertainty about whether such human-centered insights generalize to life more broadly.

This unresolved issue motivates their use of a biologically plausible model (self-optimization in Hopfield Networks) to explore creativity and agency in ways that may extend beyond human-specific frameworks.